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Internet Retail Demand : Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition

Ellison, Glenn - 2014

Data on sales of memory modules are used to explore several aspects of e-retail demand. There is a strong relationship between e-retail sales to a given state and sales tax rates that apply to purchases from online retailers. This suggests that there is substantial substitution between online...

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Banning Foreign Pharmacies from Sponsored Search : The Online Consumer Response

Chesnes, Matthew - 2014

Increased competition from the internet has raised concerns about the quality of prescription drugs sold online. Given …

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E-Commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries

Goldmanis, Maris - 2012

While a fast-growing body of research has looked at how the advent and diffusion of e-commerce has affected prices, much less work has investigated e-commerce's impact on the number and type of producers operating in an industry. This paper theoretically and empirically takes up the question of...

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Income Differences and Prices of Tradables : Insights from an Online Retailer

Simonovska, Ina - 2010

sold in 29 European, Asian, and North American markets via the Internet by Spain's second largest apparel manufacture … cross-country price variations of identical items purchased via the Internet by consumers who do not take advantage of …

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Optimal Inattention to the Stock Market with Information Costs and Transactions Costs

Abel, Andrew B. - 2010

Recurrent intervals of inattention to the stock market are optimal if consumers incur a utility cost to observe asset values. When consumers observe the value of their wealth, they decide whether to transfer funds between a transactions account from which consumption must be financed and an...

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Investor Inattention, Firm Reaction, and Friday Earnings Announcements

Della Vigna, Stefano; Pollet, Joshua M. - 2021

Do firms release news strategically in response to investor inattention? We consider news about earnings and analyze the response of returns to announcements on Friday and other weekdays. Friday announcements have less immediate and more delayed stock return response. The delayed response as a...

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Fettered Consumers and Sophisticated Firms : Evidence from Mexico's Privatized Social Security Market

Duarte, Fabian - 2012

This paper brings new evidence from the privatized social security system in Mexico, offering insight into investment behavior and the efficacy of government "nudges" in the context of profit maximizing firms. We use administrative data from the social security system surrounding the government...

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Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive?

Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2014

The Internet has the potential to significantly reduce search costs by allowing consumers to engage in low-cost price … comparisons online. This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact that the rise of Internet comparison shopping sites has … group using the Internet reduces average insurance prices for the group by as much as 5 percent. Further evidence indicates …

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Internet Rising, Prices Falling : Measuring Inflation in a World of E-Commerce

Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2018

We use Adobe Analytics data on online transactions for millions of products in many different categories from 2014 to 2017 to shed light on how online inflation compares to overall inflation, and to gauge the magnitude of new product bias online. The Adobe data contain transaction prices and...

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Consumer Price Search and Platform Design in Internet Commerce

Dinerstein, Michael - 2015

Search frictions can explain why the "law of one price" fails in retail markets and why even firms selling commodity products have pricing power. In online commerce, physical search costs are low, yet price dispersion is common. We use browsing data from eBay to estimate a model of consumer...

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